Moans, ramps and banter

[rwtwm]

 danm You've got me peering out the window! I'm only a few miles up the road. No sunshine yet, but if I squint and look north I can make out a few breaks in the clouds.

That said, though dull, April hasn't felt so bad so far. Probably because my expectations have lowered massively from the last few months of deluge. I've also been lucky that when I've wanted to be outside, there's been some brightness. Sometimes ones impression of a month is based on little more than coincidence.

[*Stormforce~beka*]

 chilly milly gone again here and back to thick cloud

[chilly milly]

 *Stormforce~beka* Could be worse here.

[MP-R]

 B87  That would do nicely. Then time to go abroad in November... 

[Wold Topper]

Although cloudy with tiny glimpses of blue skies, local weather station reporting 17°c, i'll take that after Tuesday's deluge.

[SunSean]

@B87If we did end up getting a May to October period anything like that, ill scream so loud in joy that id break the sound barrier. PLEASE

[Metwatch]

First day of the year today where it genuinely feels "warm" finally. Up to 19C with some decent spells of sunshine but feeling humid; the dewpoint at around 12-13C. Mountains over Wales helping to break up the cloud a bit this afternoon. Feels closer to the end of May, and in the majority of Junes in the first half there can be days several degrees cooler than today!

[Freeze]

I keep reading everyone saying how warm it is, feels chilly here with the cloud and breeze only 13c.

It's actually warmer in most of Scotland and the orkneys than here!

Edited April 11 by Freeze

[danm]

 

[danm]

 Freeze see breeze? 

19c here at the mo.

[Freeze]

 danm yes land of the eternal sea breeze, its very noticeable how warm it suddenly gets when the wind does switch to offshore. Easterlies are usually the only warm direction at this time of year.

[CryoraptorA303]

Currently 17.6°C at East Malling, but feeling humid and overcast with 72% humidity. Looks like 20°C may just be pulled off in the south Midlands or Norfolk today.

The soil situation is improving rapidly here, lots of open field soil has already dried up quite a bit. Shaded soil is a bit muddy still but that's honestly not too out the ordinary for mid-April these days. The forecasted dry spell will sort that out anyway with the now-August levels of insolation and high ambient temperatures.

At this rate I could easily see a hot spell exceeding 25°C in late April or early May.

[raz.org.rain]

Just hoping the cooler spell next week gets downgraded into nothing

[Mapantz]

Cold wind, overcast, 91% RH. Feels like temp of 12°C.

[Freeze]

 Mapantz according to netweather I have a feels like temp 10.9c here, feels rather chilly and decided to use the heating one last time, usually wouldn't now but because of how damp it is the flat feels cold.

[AWD]

3 minutes ago, raz.org.rain said:

 

Just hoping the cooler spell next week gets downgraded into nothing

 

The irony is, any cooler spell of weather from a northerly influence would actually bring clearer skies & sunnier conditions IMBY, with any cooler 850hpa airmass mitigated greatly by a strengthening sun.

There are probably many southerners who would happily exchange a more northerly airmass and potentially clearer airmass for what we currently have now, muggy & overcast conditions.  I appreciate you northern folk may think differently though.

[Azazel]

Yeah it’s not too bad here. Sat outside in a long sleeve and a jumper lol but I’ll take what I can get 

[Mapantz]

13 minutes ago, Freeze said:

decided to use the heating one last time

I'm still putting the heating on in the evening. There's been such a lack of sunshine that no residual heat has built up in the brickwork of the house.

[CryoraptorA303]

 AWD I'd gladly take it. Sunshine and mid-teens sounds better than muggy high teens.

[Summer8906]

 AWD I'd agree there although to be fair the afternoon was better than the morning - still mostly cloudy but bright.

Very humid and muggy - much more like late summer or early autumn than April.

Sun tried to come out between 3 and 4 but probably no more than 20-30 mins accumulated today, so the very cloudy first half of April continues.

Edited April 11 by Summer8906

[Summer8906]

 CryoraptorA303 Will need the synoptics to be right though. If we are getting W, NW or N airmasses for the rest of the month it will likely be a little above average at best.

Edited April 11 by Summer8906

[Freeze]

7 minutes ago, CryoraptorA303 said:

Sunshine and mid-teens sounds better than muggy high teens.

I'll be happy to finally reach mid teens in the first place!

[SunSean]

Had a surprise few hours of sunshine today. Not a massive amount and still probably under half the day but much better than the recent guff. Was forecast to be grey all day by both the Met (didnt look for it but people kept posting it on here) & BBC and they both failed lol. Pleasant temperature too. Hopefully tomorrow will feature a lot of sunshine as me and the dog will greatly appreciate it! Lol.

[matty40s]

Heatwave has arrived, global warming has won.

Woke up this morning and flicked the screen on the weather station to see this...

..looking outside expecting to see a downed meteorite or volcanic cone on the Nene valley...

 

Nothing to see here...

[raz.org.rain]

I might be imagining things but I'm sure I could smell petrichor today